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Energy Flow
Cycles of Matter
Energy Pyramid
Energy Roles
Cycles/1 RANDOM
100
Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
100
The step in the water cycle in which water vapor becomes liquid water is called this.
What is condensation?
100
True/False: The available energy increases at each level compared to the level below.
What is false?
100
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms is called this.
What is a consumer?
100
What is Mrs. Montchalin's favorite Disney movie?
What is Wreck-It Ralph?
200
A deer is considered this.
What is a herbivore?
200
The process when molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change into a gas state is called this.
What is evaporation?
200
This level consumer may be either a carnivore or an omnivore.
What is a second-level consumer?
200
This type of energy role breaks down wastes and dead organisms and returns raw materials to the ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
200
The difference between these 2 things is that one breaks down decaying material/wastes and one feeds off of the bodies of dead organisms.
What are decomposers and scavengers?
300
The many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up this.
What is a food web?
300
Rain, snow, sleet and hail are examples of this. Groundwater is NOT an example of this.
What is precipitation?
300
In an energy pyramid, this level has the most available energy.
What is the producer level?
300
An organism that can make its own food is called this. Its synonym is autotroph.
What is a producer?
300
The process of changing free _______ into a usable form of _______ is called this.
What is nitrogen fixation?
400
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web is called this.
What is an energy pyramid?
400
Producers release this gas as a result of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
400
The first organism in a food chain or energy pyramid is always this.
What is a producer?
400
A tadpole and a heron (bird) are considered this.
What is a consumer?
400
In ecosystems, the processes by which these 2 cycles undergo recycling, are linked.
What is the carbon cycle and oxygen cycle?
500
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
What is a food chain?
500
This is the continuous process by which water moves from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back.
What is the water cycle?
500
If a kestrel (small falcon) eats a mouse and the mouse eats grass, the kestrel is considered this.
What is a second-level consumer?
500
...this shape is used in order to show how available energy decreases at higher levels of a food web.
Why is the triangle/pyramid shape used to show the available energies?
500
In this cycle, ______ moves from the air to the soil, into living things, and back into the air.
What is the nitrogen cycle?